Tag Archives: Control Panel

Improvements to email log search in Admin console

Email log search gives admins the ability to sift through the delivery logs for their domains and evaluate message transit. This is useful for tracking down a sender or recipient's missing messages, such as those that have been quarantined as spam or otherwise routed incorrectly. Admins also use this tool to determine the IP addresses sending and receiving mail or troubleshoot how policies affect mail flow.

Today we’re launching several improvements to email log search, including:
  • Displaying compliance rule executions
  • Allowing export of log search results to Google Sheets
    • Note: the export/download button has moved from above and below the search results to the upper right of the screen (see screenshot below)

  • Correct list expansion when the sender or recipient changes
    • Note: Admins should anticipate seeing more details appear in messages where information changes during the lifecycle of a message
  • Improving visibility of message transit time
    • Time is now shown per recipient on the message details page
  • Label and informational message changes  

To access email log search, click on Reports -> Audit -> Email Log Search from Admin console.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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Restore deleted Drive and Gmail data

Currently admins can restore deleted Drive content for individual people in their domain using the Admin console. If a person accidentally deletes important data, this helps ensure that the data is not permanently lost. Today’s launch adds the ability to restore Gmail messages that were inadvertently deleted and return them to people's inboxes.

This launch also adds the ability to perform Drive or Gmail data restores for up to 10 people simultaneously. Admins can select a date range to restore data from up to 25 days in the past.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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New version of the Google Admin app on iOS

A new version of the Google Admin app for iOS is now available in the App Store. The app lets admins manage their Google for Work products on the go with their iPads and iPhones. This latest release (v1.1.0) contains the following features:

  • Instant search for finding users
  • Unifying the search fields for first name and last name for ease of use
  • Ability to switch between multiple accounts quickly
  • Conforming the UX to iOS 7 guidelines
  • Adding a settings page with settings like remember password, etc
  • Accessibility fixes

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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Get the Google Apps Admin app on the App Store

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Manage Chrome policies on Android and iOS from Google Admin console

Since April 2013, admins have had the capability to set 100+ Chrome policies for users on Chrome Devices, Windows, Mac, and Linux when they sign-in to Chrome with their Google Apps account.



Today we are providing an early preview of applying some of these same policies to Chrome on Android and iOS as well. For example, you set bookmarks through the Managed Bookmarks setting on Google Admin console and it gets pushed to Chrome on all 6 platforms, including mobile. Similarly, you can set the Proxy policy or the Password Manager policy once and it will apply on Chrome on all 6 platforms. For more information on how to turn on this early preview feature, please see the link below.


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Apply policies to Chrome on Android and iOS

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More transparency for reporting data in Admin console and API

We have introduced a date picker at the top right of the Reports section in the Admin console to provide additional transparency into any reporting delays and unblock partial data feeds in the event some data is unavailable.

The latest date for which all data points are present (usually 2 days prior to the current day) has a green background. When this date gets delayed beyond the standard 2 days delay, admins can choose a later date to access data which is not delayed and is available at the selected date:


On the API side, the API will return data for the latest available report date and admins will be able to select older dates when data gets delayed. The API will also return a warning if some of the data is missing.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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View event support in Google Drive audit logs

Currently, Google Apps Unlimited customers are able to access Drive audit logs using the Reports API and in the 'Audit' section of the Admin console reports. The current Drive audit logs include events such as create, upload, edit, rename, move, add to folder, remove from folder, trash, delete and untrash. We are now adding view event support to the Drive audit logs.

View event will cover file views for Google and non-Google file formats. Admins will also be able to filter on view events and combine that with other filtering criteria like document name, user name and timestamp.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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New bulk mail filter in Gmail Spam settings

With this new option in Gmail Spam settings, admins can turn on more stringent filtering of bulk mail using a single checkbox. This is a feature that was available in Postini, and will now be available to Google Apps customers. For migrated Postini customers, the checkbox will be enabled by default.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/2368132

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Remotely manage Chromebox video meetings

Admins can now better manage video calls in Chromebox for meetings devices right from the Google Apps Admin console, with options like remotely starting, muting and hanging up a meeting. Meeting participants are still in full control of the device in their conference room, even if the video call is started remotely. For example, meetings are muted by default, but participants can unmute the microphone using the remote control if they need to be heard. They can also end the call or perform any other task available on the device. Release track:
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SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) available on Chromebooks

Many organizations already use single sign-on (SSO) for Google Apps. Today, we are launching SAML-based SSO login for Chromebooks and Chromeboxes as well. Using the Admin console, admins can begin evaluating and slowly rolling out this capability across their organizations by setting just one policy.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

For more information:
Configure SAML Single Sign-On for Chrome Devices


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New ‘User Security Management’ privilege for delegated admins

Currently there are a number of user security management features that are available only to super admins. To increase flexibility, our goal is to provide granular privileges so that some of these security features can be delegated to non-super admins.

To that end, we have created a new privilege called ‘User Security Management’ that allows delegated admins to perform the following actions for a specific user:

  1. Enforce or disable 2-step verification for a given user
  2. Disable a user's Login Challenge for 10 minutes
  3. Retrieve/revoke application specific passwords
  4. Retrieve/revoke 3-legged OAuth (3LO) tokens

In the past, delegated admins with any existing role with the ‘Users’ privilege were already able to disable 2-step verification for individual users. With this launch, these delegated admins will automatically get ‘User Security Management’ privileges to ensure they continue to have access to disable 2-step verification.

If an admin creates a new custom role, he/she will have the ability to selectively enable ‘Users’ or ‘User Security Management’ or both privileges going forward.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/1219251#user_security


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